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Lucretia
Lucretia was, according to Roman tradition, a noblewoman whose rape by Sextus Tarquinius, son of the king, and her subsequent suicide provoked the overthrow of the Roman monarchy in 509 BCE. Her story, told by Livy, became a celebrated subject of later literature and art, though historians regard it as legend.
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